Michael Dylan Sparrow

Nationality : British

Date of Birth : 29.08.69

Work Address : AINCO-Interocean, Costa Rica 11 (1,A-26), 28016 Madrid, Spain.

Email : mike_sparrow@hotmail.com

Web page : http://geocities.datacellar.net/TheTropics/6953

Phone : ++ 34 - 1 350 4394

Fax : ++ 34 - 1 350 2414

Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography investigating the current structure of the South Indian Ocean, with UEA and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (now CEFAS), Lowestoft.

M.Sc. in Atmospheric Sciences, topics of study included Air-Sea Interaction, Climatology, Atmospheric Physics, Meteorology, Pollution Studies, Chemistry of Atmospheres, Kinetics, Oceanography and Modelling.

B.Sc. (Hons.) 2:1 in Physics. Classes included Fluid Dynamics, Classical Mechanics, Wave and Vibrations, Statistical Mechanics, Planetary Physics, Cosmology, Astrophysics, Electromagnetism, Quantum Mechanics, Special Relativity, Electronics, Thermodynamics, Solid State Physics, Nuclear Physics, Pascal Programming, Pure Maths and Statistics.

'A' levels : Physics (A), Mathematics (B), Chemistry (B), General Paper (AO level) (A)

G.C.E. 'O' levels : Physics (B), Mathematics (A), History (B), Geometrical Drawing (A), English Literature (D), English Language (B), Chemistry (C)

C.S.E's : French (2), Chemistry (1), Mathematics (1), Geometrical Drawing (1)

Employed on the European CANIGO and EUROFLOAT projects. Involves working mainly with neutrally buoyant float data, from launching to post processing and analysis. I work closely with other European institutes and have currently written two articles with these partners. My contract finishes in June 1999.

Employed by the university to write papers from my thesis.

Trainee Accountant, duties included assisting managers on various assignments and dealing with client problems. Left in 1991 to return to full time education.

European Geophysical Society '99, The Hague, Holland (1999) - "Circulation in the Mediterranean outflow in the north-east North Atlantic and associated Lagrangian statistics from neutrally buoyant float data".

European Geophysical Society '99, The Hague, Holland (1999) - poster presentation "Preliminary results of CANIGO subproject 1.2.5 (Lagrangian description of the Azores Current)".

University of East Anglia, Norwich, England (1998) - "Lagrangian Studies in the Mediterranean Outflow and Azores Current (Chasing buoys in the North Atlantic)".

POMME Meeting, Paris, France (1998) - "The Eurofloat and CANIGO projects".

Dept. of Mathematics, Madrid Central University, Madrid, Spain (1998) - "Eulerian and Lagrangian Measurements of Ocean Currents".

EUROFLOAT IV Meeting, Southampton, England (1997) - "Eurofloat Rafos Floats".

EUROFLOAT III Meeting, Brest, France (1997) - "Eurofloat Rafos Floats".

European Geophysical Society '97, Vienna, Austria (1997) - poster presentation "Spreading of Mediterranean and Labrador Sea water masses observed with neutrally buoyant floats - preliminary results from the EUROFLOAT project".

Universidad de las Palmas, Las Palmas, Canary Islands (1997) - "Neutrally Buoyant floats in the North East Atlantic".

University of East Anglia, Norwich, England (1995) - "Frontal Structure in the South Indian Ocean".

European Geophysical Society '94, Grenoble, France (1994) - poster presentation "Frontal Structure of the ACC in and around the Crozet-Kerguelen area in the South Indian Ocean".

U.K. Oceanography '94, Stirling, Scotland (1994) - "Frontal Structure of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) in the South Indian Ocean".

"Circulation in the Mediterranean Outflow in the north-eastern North Atlantic and associated Lagrangian statistics from Neutrally buoyant float data", M.D.Sparrow, V. Zervakis, W. Zenk, A. Cantos-Figuerola, W.J. Gould and Olaf Boebel, submitted to Journal of Marine Research, Oct 1998.

"Subsurface float tracking and processing using the ARTOA and ARPRO packages", M.D.Sparrow, M.Menzel, V.Zervakis, and A.Cantos-Figuerola, WOCE newsletter, 30, March,1998.

"Boyas de Deriva de Flotación Neutra en el Noreste Atlantico", M.D.Sparrow and A.Cantos-Figuerola, Taller y Tertulia en Oceanografía Física, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, pp.82-84, 1997.

"Frontal Structure and Antarctic Bottom Water Flow through the Princess Elizabeth Trough, Antarctica", K.J.Heywood, M.D.Sparrow, J.Brown and R.R.Dickson, Submitted to Deep-Sea Research I, 1997 (accepted).

"Current Structure of the South Indian Ocean", M.D.Sparrow, K.J.Heywood and J.Brown, Understanding Ocean Circulation, U.K. WOCE - The first six years…, ed. R.T.Pollard and D. Smythe-Wright, p. 24, 1996

"Current Structure of the South Indian Ocean", M.D.Sparrow, K.J.Heywood and J.Brown, Journal of Geophysical Research, Oceans, 101 (C3), pp. 6377-6391, 1996.

"Current Structure of the South Indian Ocean", M.D.Sparrow, Ph.D thesis, 219 pages, May 1996.

I have also been involved in writing various technical and cruise reports.

17^th century European history. I am currently writing a novel set during this time period. Ballroom and Latin Dancing (member of UEA Dance team), Fencing (member of the UEA Sabre team), Weight and Fitness training, Swimming, Drawing, Kung Fu (President of the Wing Chun Kung Fu Club in Newcastle), Squash and Badminton (member of Newcastle University Badminton Team). I have also been the treasurer of the Viking and Dark Ages Banqueting Society!

I have taken part in two two week cruises in the North Atlantic (1996 and 1997) as part of the Eurofloat and CANIGO projects on board the D'Entrecasteaux and Thalassa deploying MARVOR and RAFOS floats. I was on two six week cruises (ADOX I and II) in the Southern Ocean (1993 and 1994) on the R.R.S. Discovery, where I was involved in the collection and associated processing of ADCP, CTD, XBT, TSG and Bottle data, and a single eight day cruise (JONUS) in the North Sea (1994) assisting with the collection of CTD and bottle data.

In 1994 I attended the Cambridge summer school in Fluid Dynamics and in 1997 the TOA workshop on the interpretation of float data, in Brest, France. I am hoping to participate in the European Commission MAST advanced study course "Multiscale Coastal Dynamics: Fluxes and predictions for the physical component". I have also acted as a reviewer for both English and Spanish language journals.

I am familiar with various computing environments (VAX, UNIX and PC's) all of which are used in my work. I have programming experience with MATLAB, PASCAL, FOTRAN and BASIC. I set up and now maintain AINCO´s as well as my own Web sites. I have demonstrated several classes in Oceanography and Mathematics, including lengthy field courses. I have a higher-intermediate level of Spanish.

Available on request.